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Federal Green Party deputy leader Angela Davidson—also known as Rainbow Eyes—has been convicted of seven counts of criminal contempt for her participation in the Fairy Creek logging blockades on Vancouver Island beginning three years ago.

Supreme Court decision released Thursday, Justice Christopher Hinkson ruled Davidson breached a court-ordered injunction and her bail conditions in connection with protest activities on May 18, June 23 and 25, Aug. 10, Nov. 28, 2021, and Jan. 15 and 28, 2022.

Hinkson said Davidson’s conduct was “defiant, repeated and public, and certainly not minimal,” and declined to acquit her for her role in blockades of the Fairy Creek logging site in 2021 and 2022.

Protest camps were set up close to the cutting site in August 2020 and the RCMP began enforcing a court injunction granted to the Teal-Jones Group, the forestry company that holds the harvesting license in the area.

During the trial Hereditary Chief Walas Namugwis testified that Davidson and other Indigenous people were acting as stewards of the environment and defending the land.

Davidson, an Indigenous advocate known for protesting logging practices in B.C., was named as one of two deputy leaders of the federal Green Party in 2022.

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